Spam and fraudulent phone calls are not new to Canadians. Whether it’s someone pretending to be from the CRA saying you will go to jail if you don’t pay a tax balance owing, or someone saying a family member is in jail and you need to pay their bail, there are a lot of fraudulent calls.
Rogers and Fido customers have a cool new feature that helps detect unwanted and fraudulent voice calls.
“Spam Call Detect uses a proprietary self-evolving analytic engine that is constantly improving to monitor calls coming into the Rogers wireless and wireline networks in real-time and evaluates if they are suspected to be spam or fraud.” said Rogers in a release. “Incoming calls identified as potential spam or fraud will show up on a phone’s call display with a warning message such as “Likely Spam” or “Likely Fraud” to help customers decide whether to answer the call. With time, the technology will become even more accurate in predicting whether a call is unwanted spam or fraud.”
Spam Call Detect is now automatically available at no extra cost to Rogers and Fido wireless and home phone customers that have Call and Name Display functionality. Since implementation began, Rogers and Fido have flagged over 250 million spam/fraud calls for their customers.